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Yearly Archives: 2011

PLM: Underutilized and Abused Systems

By Dick Weisinger

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software is a technology that means a lot of different things to different people.  Part of the reason for that is that many different flavors of the technology have grown up, servicing distinctly different market segments.…

Technology: The AnyTime AnyWhere Data Center

By Dick Weisinger

Don’t look now, but an abandoned warehouse near you today may be the operational center of a high-tech data center tomorrow.  One analyst has dubbed the phenomena DCaaS — Data Centers as a Service.  Data centers have become modular with…

Data Centers and Technology: The Cloud is Ill-prepared for Disaster

By Dick Weisinger

It is human nature to avoid thinking about worst-case scenarios.  If something is working today, why worry about it until tomorrow?  The problem with that mode of operation though is that while we hope for the best and procrastinate in…

PLM: Same Vendors Continue to Dominate

By Dick Weisinger

The annual IDC PLM Marketscape report is out (free for download courtesy Siemens), and the vendors listed are not too much of a surprise.  Three distinct areas of PLM were analyzed in the report: Computer Aided Authoring (CAx). This category…

Enterprise Software: Does Your Organization Run too Many Apps?

By Dick Weisinger

It’s not at all unheard of to walk into a very large organization and to find that installed within the organization is a complete range of similar applications all running within different departments or divisions, all handling roughly the same…